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Comparison And Contrast Of Washington Irving And Edgar Allan
Number of Words: 754 / Number of Pages: 3
... of tone in his stories is typically lighthearted, yet dramatic. This is demonstrated in “Rip Van Winkle” when Rip comes back from the “Kaatskills” and is talking to all the people in the town. There, he finds his son and daughter and asks, “Where’s your mother?” By asking this question, Irving implies both curiosity and even fear if Dame Van Winkle is still around. This humorous approach to the subject of Rip’s wife, makes light of the fact that Rip can’t stand her. Poe uses tone similarly to give his story a ‘feel’. The especially ...
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Adolf Hitler's A Oratory Genius
Number of Words: 374 / Number of Pages: 2
... town of Braunau am
Inn, the son of Alois, a customs official, and Klara Hitler. He was not a
successful student, and his earlier years are said to have been
characterized by melancholy, aimlessness and racial hatred. It was in
Vienna where he developed what is considered to be a life-long obsession
with the danger that the world Jewery posed to the Aryan race. It was after
Hitler relocated to Munich in 1913 and served in the Bavarian 16th Regiment
that he distinguished himself for bravery and was awarded the Iron Cross
First Class. It was during this time that Hitler had found a home and
glorified ...
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Fidal Castro
Number of Words: 3356 / Number of Pages: 13
... for a
regime increasingly nauseating to most public opinion. It became clear that
Batista regime was an odious type of government. It killed its own
citizens, it stifled dissent.
At this time Fidel Castro appeared as leader of the growing rebellion.
Educated in America he was a proponent of the Marxist-Leninist philosophy.
He conducted a brilliant guerilla campaign from the hills of Cuba against
Batista. On January 1959, he prevailed and overthrew the Batista
government.
Castro promised to restore democracy in Cuba, a feat Batista had failed
to accomplish. This promise was lo ...
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Timothy Findley
Number of Words: 368 / Number of Pages: 2
... Findley came out with six other popular novels, two collections of short stories and Inside Memory: Pages from a Writer’s Workbook (1990), a collection of articles, journal entries, and reminiscences. Findley has been very active in the writing community; he has helped to found the Writer’s Union of Canada and has served as its chairperson. He has also been President of the Canadian chapter of P.E.N. International, and is also active in Artists Against racism. In addition to this Findley has won many awards including the Canadian Authors Association Award, The Order of Ontario, The Ontario Trilli ...
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Doc Holliday
Number of Words: 1383 / Number of Pages: 6
... look as good as possible no matter where he went. This handkerchief in his eyes may have shown people his intelligent, well educated side. This educated side is a side of Doc that few people know about today. Usually when someone hears the name , they think about fighting, drinking, and gambling, all of these are true of Doc, but these people had barely scratched the surface. As a young man Doc attended Valdosta institute where he became knowledgeable of the Greek, Latin, and French languages. Amazingly Doc’s favorite subject
was rhetoric, his teachers claimed that Doc had a way with words
unsurpa ...
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Bill Clinton's Affair With Monica Lewinsky
Number of Words: 595 / Number of Pages: 3
... he actually cares about the people and his family. Every
time you see him with his family the Clinton's are always happy, and he is
usually hugging his daughter or wife. The Americans never hear anything bad
about his wife and daughter on the news or in the newspapers. When
Clinton's administrative people heard about his impeachment, some of them
walked out, but most of them stayed and kept their loyalty to him. That
shows that he is a good person. When he meets people in real life, he
never pushes them away. On a recent meeting with congress Clinton was
telling them that “We have to be there for the ...
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William Lyon Mackenzie
Number of Words: 1495 / Number of Pages: 6
... the opinions of the voters in the next election.
On June 8, 1826, a group of fifteen, young, well connected Tories disguised themselves as Indians, and broke into Mackenzie’s York office in broad daylight. They smashed his printing press, then threw it into the bay. The Tories did nothing to compensate him, so it was clear that they were involved. Mackenzie ntook them to court, and seeing that their “disguise” had been seen through, they offered Mackenzie £200. He refused, and after a bitter trial, the court awarded him £625.
In March of 1829, Mackenzie went to the United St ...
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Seperate And Unequal, Frederic
Number of Words: 1180 / Number of Pages: 5
... The first amendment grants freedom of religion, speech, and assembly. It states
“ Congress shall pass no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise, thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech…or the right of the people to assemble.” (Primis, 95).
Even with this being law both blacks and white women were not allowed to choose what church to attend or allowed to voice their own opinions; both conditions violate the 1st amendment. The 9th amendment also states something contradictory to the way life actually was, it says: “The enumeration in the constitution, o ...
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The Impact Of Frederick Douglass
Number of Words: 991 / Number of Pages: 4
... met a
brother and two sisters. He later recalled sadly that
"slavery had made us strangers." (Compton’s Interactive
Deluxe 1)
At the age of 13 he read “The Colombian Orator”, a book
of speeches denouncing slavery and oppression deepened his
hatred of slavery.
“In 1833 Frederick was sent to work for Auld's brother,
Thomas, at a plantation near St. Michael's, Md. Frederick's
pride angered his new master, who placed him in the hands of
a "slave breaker" in an effort to "tame" him. One day the
two fought, and Frederick emerged victorious. Sometime
later he wrote that the fight had been a turning poi ...
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Andrew Carnegie
Number of Words: 936 / Number of Pages: 4
... Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development by George S. Bobinski shows the impact of his philanthropy and the reaction it received.
lived by his philosophy that “The man who dies thus rich, dies disgraced.” He not only wrote these words, but lived by them. “Money can only be the useful drudge of things immeasurably higher than itself...Mine be it to have contributed to the enlightenment and the joys of the mind...” Carnegie said. Therefore, he put his fortune into education and free access to information through donating gifts to the world- the building of p ...
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